The Turner-Fairbank Highway Research Center (TFHRC) is a federally owned and operated research facility in McLean, Virginia. TFHRC is the home of the Federal Highway Administration’s (FHWA’s) Office of Research, Development, and Technology. As they describe their mission:
TFHRC provides FHWA and the world highway community with the most advanced research and development related to new highway technologies. The research focuses on providing solutions to complex technical problems through the development of more economical, environmentally sensitive designs; more efficient, quality controlled constructions practices; and more durable materials. The end result is a safer, more reliable highway transportation system.
Why should we care about all that? Because this agency has done quite a bit of research on different pavement materials, and that could be helpful in accident reconstruction.
